Stopper for medicine-bottles



(N0 Model.)

W. H. FLINN.

STOPPER FOR MEDICINE BOTTLES.

No. 247,185. Patented Sept. 20,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT QEFICE.

WILLIAM H. FLINN, OF NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

STOPPER FOR MEDICINE-BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,185, dated September 20, 1881.

Application filed August 25, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. FLINN, a resident of Nashua, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Graduated Tubes to be Applied to the Stoppers of Medicine-Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in certain improvements upon the subject matter shown and claimed in Letters Patent No. 75,745, granted March 24, 1868; and it consists, more particularly, in a certain novel construction of the tube shown in said patent, whereby it may be more easily and firmly secured to the cork, or to either end of the cork, whereby all possibility of leakage around the point of contact is avoided, and all danger of crushing the tube by forcing the cork into the bottle-neck is completely obviated.

Referring to the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section taken through the cork and tube alone.

A in said figures denotes any ordinary bottle, such as are used commonly for holding medical remedies.

B is the cork, made of the usual form and material.

U is a graduated glass tube, havinga diameter somewhat less than the small end of the cork. This tubeisblown of any suitable length, one end, a, being left open, while the other end, 11, is rounded and closed, and terminates in a sharp spur, 0, having a contracted portion or neck, 01, formed near the point where'the spur joins the tube.

A graduated scale of any convenient kind is marked upon the side of the tube, indicating the usual quantities in which medicine is administeredas, for example, minims, or drops, tea-spoonfuls, 8U.- This tube is attached to the cork stopper by driving the spur 0 into its end at the center, as shown in Fig. 2. The elastic nature of the cork causes it to contract closely around the spur and to fill the contracted portion or neck (I, thus affording a remarkably firm and strong attachment.

It is evident that the tube may be attached in this manner to either end of the stopper, as indicated in Fig. 1. It will be seen, also, that when attached in the manner shown in Fig. 2

the broad end of the cork will afford a base or support upon which the graduated tube may stand, and in this form it may be used as a medicine graduate without the bottle.

By this invention a most convenient device is furnished to travelers, as well as all others who are obliged to carry about with them medical compounds to be taken at stated intervals. After use the tube drains directly into the bottle, and all danger of soiling the clothes is avoided, as well as the necessity of cleansing the measure after using it. There is no possibility of any leakage, as the bottom of the tube is blown solid, and, moreover, it cannot by any possibility be broken by using the cork in a bottle having a small neck, as no amount of compression will shatter the spur 0. Finally, the same tube may be used repeatedly and with any size of bottle large enough to admit it, it being necessary simply to withdraw the spur from one cork and drive it into another.

Heretofore a medicine-dropper has been constructed of a glass tube closed at one end, which is secured in a cork and contracted at its other end, which is provided with ahole for the passage of the drops; and such I hereby disclaim.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A medicine-measuring tube consisting of a glass cylinder having a closed rounded end, constructed with a projecting tapering closed spur adapted to be driven into either end of a cork, the other end of the cylinder being entirely open to form a mouth, into which the medicine can be readily poured, as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of the cork B with the graduated glass cylinder 0, constructed with a rounded end terminating in a neck, r], and a sharpened spur, c,the-other end of the cylinder being entirely open to form a mouth into which medicine can be poured, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. WM. H. FLINN.

Witnesses:

L. L. TILDEN, OnAs. B. TILDEN. 

